Early poems and short stories were published  in the Irish Press New Writing Page ed David Marcus;

The Dark Hole Days, a Novella and Short Stories published by Blackstaff Press 1985;

She contributed short stories, poems and prose pieces to anthologies puiblished  in Ireland

and the UK,  from the Female Line  Published by NI Womens Rights;, 1985

through to The Glass Shore, published by New Island Books, ed Sinéad Gleeson 2016

Grace before meals, a play, was performed at festivals across Ireland in the early 2000’s.

Ashtrees Press, a small independent publisher, has published the following books of poems and prose:

Afternoons -  selected poems 2006

stillflight– words that deserted their stories  - short prose pieces 2008

Mr and Mrs McKeown - the accidental maze  - a novella 2010

an icicle for an eye - notepoems 2011

2 plays - Grace before meals; For want of the call 2012

splintered vision - selected poems 2016

The ordinary of the disquiet -  poems 2021

On picking up a copy of ‘an icicle for an eye’ in a local bookshop poet Ciaran Carson wrote:

‘……..there are some lovely things in it, sometimes very funny and sometimes very evocative and moving. It’s unlike any other poetry I’ve read over the past long while……’

He went on to say it reminded him of a French poet he was translating at the time, which introduced her to the poetry of Jean Follain; this included subsequently that which featured in Ciaran’s translations alongside his own poetic responses, in his book From Elsewhere which Una describes as ‘redolent and richly original.’

 ‘There are times’ she says, ‘when  things come to you unexpectedly, where you don’t feel alone with your words, even if that is what you chose.’